Early registration for Quasar ends at 11:59 PM PST! We're celebrating the whole writer with panels like "Centering Wellness as Creators"... and actual wellness breaks! Let's break writer stereotypes about suffering for art, and empower new ways of thinking about creative practice. buff.ly/CbgABOU

Join panelists @genni.bsky.social, @scottedelman.bsky.social, @cjtavares.bsky.social, and @vriccithode.bsky.social for our Quasar conversation on centering wellness as creators, and don't miss @jenniferhudak.bsky.social's generous SFF-themed chair-yoga and meditation sessions, too!

Please, I beg, can we not put stickers on book covers, especially the stickers that refuse to peel off nicely, if at all, forcing me to pry little flakes of sticky paper off for the next twenty minutes with my fingernails, chipping my nail polish and leaving behind a residue on my brand new book?

No. Nope. Absolutely not. Seriously, this is disgusting and will only lead to the ruin of literature. 😡

Me, holding up the light of Eärendil: Damn it, Shelob, not now!

Me, reaching the end of chapter 7 in The Dragonfly Gambit by @thesuiway.bsky.social:

We are just over a week away from @sfwa.org's Quasar! 🎉 I'll be there alongside @genni.bsky.social, @scottedelman.bsky.social, and @vriccithode.bsky.social on Saturday Nov 15th, 5 PM PST on the Centering Wellness as Creators panel. Hope to see you there! ➡️ membership.sfwa.org/event-6301796

I hope you'll come along and eavesdrop next weekend when I pontificate on panels at SFWA's Quasar event. On Saturday, November 15th, I'll be on the panel "Centering Wellness as Creators," then on Sunday, November 16th, I'll take part in "It's a Scream: Writing Horror Across the Ages." Join us!

I read The First Thousand Trees by @premeemohamed.com all in one sitting last night (RiP my sleep (worth it!)) and damn near started crying the story was so beautiful, the prose was so beautiful, the ending was so beautiful!

Somehow it's almost the middle of November!? Have you signed up for Quasar, a virtual con from SFWA? Gets you access to lots of cool online content in addition to the con, where you can hear me talk about author wellness 😆 hurry! registration closes Nov 8! #booksky membership.sfwa.org/event-6301796

And another story sale to announce! "Hotcakes at the End Times" will be my second appearance in the fabulous @naturefutures.bsky.social! Stay tuned for a story of food, comfort, and the good that shines through the darkness. 🥞🚀

I am still so thrilled to have a story coming soon with the amazing @heartlines-spec.com. I cannot wait for readers to be introduced to my zombie apocalypse love letter to junk food: "At the End of the World, Meet Me by the Vending Machines." Red Dye No. 40 is coming your way! 🧟🍫

'Thirteen Hours' is officially free to read from @ratbaglit.bsky.social! 🩸Dark bargains 🕰️What you'll sacrifice to change the past 🪶Only 100 words! Read now: ratbaglit.substack.com/p/thirteen-h... 🩸📚💙🤏📚

AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

SFWA is thrilled to announce our Winter Worlds of Giving, running Nov 1 to Jan 31. Join us on the campaign trail! We're fundraising to support our mainly volunteer-run services, and we want to support YOU in your writing goals all along the way. Learn more below! 👇👀 www.sfwa.org/winter-world...

A few minutes for a cry? Try the rest of the day! 😭 "I would be grateful if one of you would adopt Charm..." My heart!

The Apex Book Company submission window is now open! 📚✍️ We're looking for surreal stories with unknowable horror, lush prose, and unique POVs. Please email your cover letter and manuscript to [email protected]. Full submission details: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

I was doing some financial nonsense today and my checkbook wallet disintegrated into dust when I opened it, and just wow. Wow. I get it, wallet. I'm old. I didn't need the visual metaphor, thank you.

Congrats to all the winners and finalists!

Just for funnsies, here's an interview with one of the co-editors of Trollbreath Magazine, posted by @duotrope.com today. Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up) duotrope.com/interview/ed...

Wait, it's November?!

Congrats everyone! 🎉

So this happened. Today has been such a rollercoaster. Hug all your friends tight and celebrate every little joy when you can <3

Me, after eating way too much cake at lunch: Oof, not doing that again. Me, at dinner: Oh, look! Cake!

Got a lovely little shout-out from @cornellwriter.bsky.social in her newsletter for my microfiction work. Thank you P.A.! Read the entire newsletter post (which is full of cool things) as well as subscribe (all of P.A.'s posts are full of cool things) here: pacornell.substack.com/p/robots-dog...

Mango cake! 🥭 Absolutely delicious! Mango cardamom sponge, mango curd, and then a frosting that was supposed to be plain but there was An Incident with the curd oozing everywhere and the frosting became mango as well. Still good! Happy Halloween! 🎃

Due to the high number of AI submissions and general life things, we are still processing short story submissions from the last open submission period. If you haven't heard anything from us yet, this is why. We hope to have everything processed over the next 2 weeks. Thanks for your patience!

Happy Halloween! In the mood for some ghostie vibes? Feeling a little nostalgic for summer? Wondering why it is still 80 degrees and sunny in the middle of fall? Well, have I got a story for you! "Ghosts of Summer" is free to read with @apexmag.bsky.social. Come check it out today!

Take my money!!! 🤩

I know I do the "you should subscribe to my newsletter" posts every once in a while, but this time you're really going to want to subscribe to my newsletter. The November post has So. Much News. All the news. Chock full of news. So, yeah...you should subscribe to my newsletter:

Look what came in the mail! 🤩😍 I love the @flashpointsf.bsky.social hardcovers so much. They look so good on my shelf and the stories are amazing! Honored to have my little sci-fi piece "They Will Dance Among Planets" in such a gorgeous collection.

It sure is Tuesday and I'm actually remembering to post a link this week! For Halloween week we have @cjtavares.bsky.social and H. Pueyo stories! Yay! howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...

It me! I'm the zombies! So stoked to have a story coming soon with Heartlines. This is such a great magazine and that TOC is filled with authors I admire. I am honored to be included and can't wait to share it with you.

Amen!

Yay!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I am basking in that warm fully funded glow (and low-key hoping it cures my cold). Thanks everyone who donated and boosted!

Friends, I am currently under the weather, very behind on work, fighting SAD--my heart, it cannot take this. Please, give and get @apexmag.bsky.social to their goal so I can save my dwindling supply of tissues for my nose and not my tears. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex is only $1000 off hitting their initial goal! Let's keep this pillar of the SFFH community running for another year (preferably with some stretch goals thrown in!)

Okay, listen: @apexmag.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to their funding goal, but there are only 5 DAYS left. And I know we're all barely able to put food on the table, but whatever you have to give, please consider giving to Apex TODAY so there can be just one more light shining in the darkness in 2026.

I'm so excited for this! I will be there on the Wellness panel on Saturday to talk all things writing while caring for your health and y'all should join me! @sfwa.org

looking forward to this! and you can find me on the saturday wellness panel! 👀

Hey-o! Did you enjoy my drabble "Carrots and Sticks" in Anomaly last week? Wondering about the ins and outs of writing flash/micros? Want some story recs? Then check out my interview out now with Anomaly's Patreon!

Free Fiction Friday is here!!!! Enjoy Draconis astronomus by Catherube Tavares. In the depths of space, here there be dragons magazine.trollbreath.com/draconis-ast... @cjtavares.bsky.social

Been quiet round here lately cos I (Jonny, Editor-In-Chief) have been crazy busy with work. But! We've got some cool stuff coming soon, including: STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition An interview with Lyndsey Croal The revival of the newsletter Me actually catching up with the submissions pile

Curious about how "Ghosts of Summer" came to be? Wondering what my writing process looks like? Come join the @apexmag.bsky.social Patreon to read an interview I gave!

GOOD LORD, sorry, and hello everyone. Illness, and a bit more illness, an international move, a new job. Jesus. I can't respond to DMs yet because of a UK ID rule. I will be emailing folks about issues 1 and 2 over the next week to see if they are still interested in being included.

Excited to announce that I sold my second story to Phano Magazine! Be on the lookout for "Symbiosis", my story about family bonds and love that extends beyond a single species.🌼

Gut-punch of a story from @cjtavares.bsky.social. Check it out!

"Ghosts of Summer" is now free to read on the Apex website! Grab a popsicle, bring some tissues, and come say hi to the ghosts!☀️👻 www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Yo, if y'all haven't gotten a copy of Dark Hearts and read Akis' awesome story yet, then you need to fix that right now! It's so good!

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...